Statistically, travel by air is one of the safest forms of transportation. Yet we
continue to experience aviation tragedies. Do we fully understand flight safety or is
there another way of looking at the problem? In this work a new way of approaching
the question of flight safety is developed,...
This exploratory study looks at communication perspectives and applies them to
the transcript of USAir Flight 427, a flight that crashed while attempting to land.
Researchers calculate that 60% to 80% of the accidents can he traced to pilot error.
Many of these errors occur through a single communication event...
In conformity with advanced cockpit automation technology,
modern pilots have become airborne system managers
and have to satisfactorily manage complex sets of tasks to
complete a flight mission safely. Funk's (1991) normative
cockpit task management (CTM) theory defines CTM functions
as the initiation, monitoring, prioritization, allocating
of resources to, and...
